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I love the fact that Dan Hardy writes a column for his local media outlet, This Is Nottingham. I wish more fighters would sit down at a computer and give us a look inside their mind, though, as Hardy demonstrated with his latest effort, sometimes it doesn’t work the way you think it’s going to.
The title of today’s piece is “Lentz went into hiding for the big fight.” It ostensibly deals with Nik Lentz‘s grappling-centric win over Andre Winner in a slow-paced fight at UFC 118, but a more accurate description of the column might have been: “Too much wrestling in MMA, says guy whose friends keep losing to superior wrestlers.”
Hardy’s thesis, more or less, is that there are too many wrestlers in the UFC who just want to take opponents down and hold them there, and this is a problem the sport needs to address via rule changes. As Hardy writes in his attempt to preemptively counter the argument that he and many of his fellow Brits simply need to become better wrestlers:
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Dan Hardy Thinks There’s Too Much Wrestling in MMA, Wants Rule Changes
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